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The ABC2 program Maximum Choppage at 9pm tonight is important. Timothy Ly is a child of Cambodian/Chinese refugees who fled the killing fields, travelling over a minefield and sailing to Australia for a new life. They have worked hard to start a new life and Tim has done a masterful job of answering that hope without being the doctor or lawyer his parents may have anticipated. He is more precious than that. Firstly, at age 18, fresh out of a Sydney suburban high school, he made a short movie with friends on no budget, called Maximum Choppage. It featured the martial arts he had been trained in as a thing to do. Then he gathered together a group of keen film students and, again on no budget, wrote, directed and produced a feature length Maximum Choppage round 2. It was a martial arts romantic comedy and it took years to complete. It unearthed talent which is still filtering through Sydney studios. People such as Maria Tran, Rudge Hollis and others. Maria has been involved with projects like Digital Stories, where ethnically diverse peoples tell their life stories on a cube or wall. Everyone has a story to tell, but to tell it in an Australia context, makes it Australian. The ABC has failed by not telling these stories, but by focusing on a very small aspect of Australian culture. With this new tv series, there is a hope that the ABC can be brought back to the fold of its core duty. Tim's parents risked being among the fifty percent casualties of people drowned coming to Australia, fleeced by pirates. His baby, twelve years in the making, shows the reward garnered from that risk. I salute you, Tim, and wish the show every success.
The world is dangerous even when evil, anarchistic ideologues are not murdering innocent peoples on little pretext. The panic stricken new Queensland Premier illustrated how shaky control is when a tropical depression which had been a cyclone wandered through the state, upending some trees and denying power to some towns. A few years earlier another incompetent ALP government had killed people through incompetence. But the storm wasn't that bad. But on this day in 1875, a tropical cyclone which flooded the coastline of Queensland also threatened a 500 ton, 60m steamship with some one hundred and thirty people on board. The Gothenburg was capable of sailing through the swell, but she had been pushed too close to the Barrier Reef and lodged there. She had been on a journey from Darwin to Adelaide. There had been insufficient space on the life boats and they weren't strong enough for the elements as the steamer was. Two of the four boats were lost with four crew each as the Captain tried to use them to help lift the Gothenburg off the reef. The storm was too overwhelming. An attempt was made to dislodge Gothenburg by reversing her on full power. This cut her in half and holed her. In trying to get on one of the two remaining life boats, the life boats were overwhelmed and capsized. Survivors hung on to Gothenburg's rigging until the storm ended. Sharks claimed some bodies. An upended life boat was righted. At first survivors rowed to mainland, but realising they would not make it, diverted to a nearby island. A life boat with four survivors that survived the attempt to dislodge Gothenburg was discovered by another steamer, and so some twenty two men survived. Lost were all officers, a former Premier of South Australia, a french vice consul. One magistrate had missed the journey, but lost his wife and six children. Many other important personages died too. Darwin had lost many who were needed to build the community.
The world changes, but it also remains the same. On this day in 1917, a desperate German Empire offered Mexico the three states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if Mexico went to war against the US on the event of the US going to war with Germany. It was anticipated the US would go to war because of German U-boat activity. In April Germany was proven right. Mexico did not answer favourably to Germany's desperate plea after their telegram was intercepted by British intelligence and leaked to the public as the Zimmerman Telegram. On this day in 1945, the Egyptian PM was assassinated after he had called for new elections and opposed the candidacy of Muslim Brotherhood. The assassin was from a third party, Wafd, which was the party from which the PM had split in '38.
2014
As a younger teenager I read a book called Grimus. It was edgy and strange and depicted sex in a way that was desirable, readable. The author's first published novel, on this day, 1989, the author had a price placed on his head of $3 million for his death by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is unclear as to why Khomeini issued the bounty after placing a fatwā ordering Rushdie's death. But, it diminishes the authority of the fatwā. It was a time that moderate Islamic scholars could have stood up and corrected the mistake. Someone, some where could have said that the death proclamation was not part of the 'religion of peace', but, sadly for faithful Islamic people today, no one stood forward, or stood up.
Some people died. A Japanese translator was murdered by fanatics who failed to adhere to the letter of the proclamation. Publishers were threatened. Rushdie was put into protective custody. In the late '80's I was attending church at St Thomas' Moorebank, Anglican. One idiot minister noted bad things happened to people who weren't faithful, and Rushdie had not adhered to his faith. I can criticise the minister without people wanting to kill me. Tehran maintains a shrine to one idiot who blew himself up trying to blow up Rushdie. Every 14th of Feb, Iran sends a valentine's card to Rushdie, reminding him they want him dead. Worth considering who the people are Obama wants to supervise Middle East peace.
But, while it may be viewed as reprehensible that so few within Islam spoke against the outrageous ruling, what of those with a pastoral role? It is not an issue for Christian churches. They give aid to Islamic peoples, too, but not targeted, How dare they have such contempt of Islamic peoples. Iran is not a world leader for Islam. She is a terrorist nation, part of an axis of evil. Her people are far better than their government. It is wrong to promote terror. But that is what many governments and churches have done in their dealings with Iran. Iranian people deserve freedom from such oppression.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 303, Galerius published his edict that began the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire. 484, King Huneric removed the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few were martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They were killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians. 1303, Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence. 1387, King Charles III of Naples and Hungary was assassinated at Buda. 1525, Spanish-Imperial army defeated French army at Battle of Pavia. 1538, Treaty of Nagyvárad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya. 1582, with the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1607, L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognised as an opera, received its première performance. 1711, the London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
In 1803, in Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States established the principle of judicial review. 1809, London's Drury Lane Theatre burned to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. 1821, final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala 1822, the first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, was inaugurated. 1826, the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marked the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War. 1831, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi ceded land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West. 1848, King Louis-Philippe of France abdicated the throne. 1863, Arizona was organised as a United States territory. 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He was later acquitted in the Senate. 1875, the SS Gothenburg hit the Great Barrier Reef and sank off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries. 1881, China and Russia signed the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. 1895, Revolution broke out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ended with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
In 1916, Governor-General of Korea established clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients. 1917, World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom was given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledged to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declared war on the United States. 1918, Estonian Declaration of Independence. 1920, the Nazi Party was founded.
In 1942, the Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25. Also 1942, an order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gave the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin". 1944, Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders began their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. 1945, Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha was killed in Parliament after reading a decree. 1968, Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive was halted; South Vietnam recaptured Hué. 1971, the All India Forward Bloc held an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar was appointed as the new chairman. 1976, Cuba: national Constitution was proclaimed.
In 1980, the United States Olympic Hockey team completed their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal. 1981, an earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hit Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. 1983, a special commission of the U.S. Congress released a report that condemned the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. 1984, Tyrone Mitchell perpetrated the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more. 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offered a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Also 1989, United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, ripped open during flight, blowing 9 passengers out of the business-class section. 1996, the last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church. 1999, the U.S. state of Arizona executed Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. 2006, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup. 2007, Japan launched its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. 2008, Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. 2011, final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
The ABC2 program Maximum Choppage at 9pm tonight is important. Timothy Ly is a child of Cambodian/Chinese refugees who fled the killing fields, travelling over a minefield and sailing to Australia for a new life. They have worked hard to start a new life and Tim has done a masterful job of answering that hope without being the doctor or lawyer his parents may have anticipated. He is more precious than that. Firstly, at age 18, fresh out of a Sydney suburban high school, he made a short movie with friends on no budget, called Maximum Choppage. It featured the martial arts he had been trained in as a thing to do. Then he gathered together a group of keen film students and, again on no budget, wrote, directed and produced a feature length Maximum Choppage round 2. It was a martial arts romantic comedy and it took years to complete. It unearthed talent which is still filtering through Sydney studios. People such as Maria Tran, Rudge Hollis and others. Maria has been involved with projects like Digital Stories, where ethnically diverse peoples tell their life stories on a cube or wall. Everyone has a story to tell, but to tell it in an Australia context, makes it Australian. The ABC has failed by not telling these stories, but by focusing on a very small aspect of Australian culture. With this new tv series, there is a hope that the ABC can be brought back to the fold of its core duty. Tim's parents risked being among the fifty percent casualties of people drowned coming to Australia, fleeced by pirates. His baby, twelve years in the making, shows the reward garnered from that risk. I salute you, Tim, and wish the show every success.
The world is dangerous even when evil, anarchistic ideologues are not murdering innocent peoples on little pretext. The panic stricken new Queensland Premier illustrated how shaky control is when a tropical depression which had been a cyclone wandered through the state, upending some trees and denying power to some towns. A few years earlier another incompetent ALP government had killed people through incompetence. But the storm wasn't that bad. But on this day in 1875, a tropical cyclone which flooded the coastline of Queensland also threatened a 500 ton, 60m steamship with some one hundred and thirty people on board. The Gothenburg was capable of sailing through the swell, but she had been pushed too close to the Barrier Reef and lodged there. She had been on a journey from Darwin to Adelaide. There had been insufficient space on the life boats and they weren't strong enough for the elements as the steamer was. Two of the four boats were lost with four crew each as the Captain tried to use them to help lift the Gothenburg off the reef. The storm was too overwhelming. An attempt was made to dislodge Gothenburg by reversing her on full power. This cut her in half and holed her. In trying to get on one of the two remaining life boats, the life boats were overwhelmed and capsized. Survivors hung on to Gothenburg's rigging until the storm ended. Sharks claimed some bodies. An upended life boat was righted. At first survivors rowed to mainland, but realising they would not make it, diverted to a nearby island. A life boat with four survivors that survived the attempt to dislodge Gothenburg was discovered by another steamer, and so some twenty two men survived. Lost were all officers, a former Premier of South Australia, a french vice consul. One magistrate had missed the journey, but lost his wife and six children. Many other important personages died too. Darwin had lost many who were needed to build the community.
The world changes, but it also remains the same. On this day in 1917, a desperate German Empire offered Mexico the three states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if Mexico went to war against the US on the event of the US going to war with Germany. It was anticipated the US would go to war because of German U-boat activity. In April Germany was proven right. Mexico did not answer favourably to Germany's desperate plea after their telegram was intercepted by British intelligence and leaked to the public as the Zimmerman Telegram. On this day in 1945, the Egyptian PM was assassinated after he had called for new elections and opposed the candidacy of Muslim Brotherhood. The assassin was from a third party, Wafd, which was the party from which the PM had split in '38.
2014
As a younger teenager I read a book called Grimus. It was edgy and strange and depicted sex in a way that was desirable, readable. The author's first published novel, on this day, 1989, the author had a price placed on his head of $3 million for his death by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is unclear as to why Khomeini issued the bounty after placing a fatwā ordering Rushdie's death. But, it diminishes the authority of the fatwā. It was a time that moderate Islamic scholars could have stood up and corrected the mistake. Someone, some where could have said that the death proclamation was not part of the 'religion of peace', but, sadly for faithful Islamic people today, no one stood forward, or stood up.
Some people died. A Japanese translator was murdered by fanatics who failed to adhere to the letter of the proclamation. Publishers were threatened. Rushdie was put into protective custody. In the late '80's I was attending church at St Thomas' Moorebank, Anglican. One idiot minister noted bad things happened to people who weren't faithful, and Rushdie had not adhered to his faith. I can criticise the minister without people wanting to kill me. Tehran maintains a shrine to one idiot who blew himself up trying to blow up Rushdie. Every 14th of Feb, Iran sends a valentine's card to Rushdie, reminding him they want him dead. Worth considering who the people are Obama wants to supervise Middle East peace.
But, while it may be viewed as reprehensible that so few within Islam spoke against the outrageous ruling, what of those with a pastoral role? It is not an issue for Christian churches. They give aid to Islamic peoples, too, but not targeted, How dare they have such contempt of Islamic peoples. Iran is not a world leader for Islam. She is a terrorist nation, part of an axis of evil. Her people are far better than their government. It is wrong to promote terror. But that is what many governments and churches have done in their dealings with Iran. Iranian people deserve freedom from such oppression.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 303, Galerius published his edict that began the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire. 484, King Huneric removed the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few were martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They were killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians. 1303, Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence. 1387, King Charles III of Naples and Hungary was assassinated at Buda. 1525, Spanish-Imperial army defeated French army at Battle of Pavia. 1538, Treaty of Nagyvárad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya. 1582, with the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1607, L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognised as an opera, received its première performance. 1711, the London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
In 1803, in Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States established the principle of judicial review. 1809, London's Drury Lane Theatre burned to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. 1821, final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala 1822, the first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, was inaugurated. 1826, the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marked the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War. 1831, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi ceded land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West. 1848, King Louis-Philippe of France abdicated the throne. 1863, Arizona was organised as a United States territory. 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He was later acquitted in the Senate. 1875, the SS Gothenburg hit the Great Barrier Reef and sank off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries. 1881, China and Russia signed the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. 1895, Revolution broke out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ended with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
In 1916, Governor-General of Korea established clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients. 1917, World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom was given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledged to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declared war on the United States. 1918, Estonian Declaration of Independence. 1920, the Nazi Party was founded.
In 1942, the Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25. Also 1942, an order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gave the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin". 1944, Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders began their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. 1945, Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha was killed in Parliament after reading a decree. 1968, Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive was halted; South Vietnam recaptured Hué. 1971, the All India Forward Bloc held an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar was appointed as the new chairman. 1976, Cuba: national Constitution was proclaimed.
In 1980, the United States Olympic Hockey team completed their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal. 1981, an earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hit Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. 1983, a special commission of the U.S. Congress released a report that condemned the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. 1984, Tyrone Mitchell perpetrated the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more. 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offered a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Also 1989, United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, ripped open during flight, blowing 9 passengers out of the business-class section. 1996, the last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church. 1999, the U.S. state of Arizona executed Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. 2006, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup. 2007, Japan launched its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. 2008, Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. 2011, final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.